Over 300 deserving youth above 16 years old belonging to 13 model villages will be trained for six months in tailoring, embroidery, welding, electrician, auto-repair and maintenance and mobile phone repair. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
The Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) will impart free vocational and technical training to unemployed youth in nine flood-affected districts in the Punjab.
Under the programme, over 300 deserving youth above 16 years old belonging to 13 model villages will be trained for six months in tailoring, embroidery, welding, electrician, auto-repair and maintenance and mobile phone repair.
Trainings will be imparted through vocational training institutes.
Professional trainers would also provide guidance for job search and assist trainees on how to start small businesses.
The Punjab Skills Development Fund is a non-profit organisation that was set up with the cooperation of the Punjab government and United Kingdom’s Department for International Development for skills development among the poor and the underprivileged people in the flood affected districts.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2013.
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